About Aletheia
Built because the institutions did not.
Aletheia was built by Mary Leriche, founder of Lonia AI, after more than a decade making government and enterprise software accessible the hard way. It was built because 96% of websites still fail in 2026, and the people locked out should not have to wait another decade for the institutions to fix them.
Why Aletheia exists
36 years of standards. 96% still fail.
The ADA was passed in 1990. WCAG was first published in 1999. Every year since then, organizations have been told to make their digital content accessible. Every year, most of them have not.
96% of websites fail basic accessibility standards. That number has barely moved in a decade. The government just pushed the compliance deadline back again. Two graduate students at West Virginia State University had to file a federal lawsuit because their learning materials were inaccessible for three years. They asked nicely first. They waited. The institution did not fix it.
I spent over a decade remediating 130+ government websites for accessibility compliance across South Carolina and New Jersey. Page by page. Image by image. Form by form. I know what inaccessible content looks like from the inside, and I know how long it takes to fix it the hard way.
Aletheia exists because I got tired of waiting for institutions to do the right thing. If they will not make their content accessible, I will give people the tools to make it accessible themselves. That is not a workaround. That is agency.
The name
Aletheia means unconcealment.
Aletheia (ἀλήθεια) is the Greek concept of unconcealment, of revealing what is hidden. Every product in the Lonia AI portfolio is named after a figure or concept from Greek or Roman mythology. Aletheia reveals content that inaccessible design has concealed from the people who need it.
An image without alt text is not absent for a sighted user. It is concealed from a blind one. A scanned PDF is not unreadable to anyone with eyes. It is concealed from anyone using a screen reader. Aletheia removes the concealment and returns the content to the people it was always supposed to be for.
Part of a larger family
One product in the Lonia AI portfolio.
Lonia AI builds tools for the populations that mainstream software treats as edge cases. BrailleBuddy converts classroom documents to braille for blind students. Pallas helps organizations find the accessibility failures Aletheia helps people work around. Soteria gives small clinics HIPAA-aware compliance documentation they can actually use. Iris, Themis, and the rest each address a population whose access has been quietly deprioritized.
Aletheia is the one product in the portfolio aimed directly at the user, not the institution. The other products help institutions do the right thing. Aletheia helps people who cannot wait for them to.
Learn more about the rest of the family at lonia.ai.
Three pillars, applied here
What accessibility, compliance, and security mean for a tool that handles your documents.
Accessibility
An inaccessible accessibility tool is a contradiction. Aletheia's interface meets WCAG 2.2 AA across every screen, works fully through a keyboard, announces correctly to NVDA, JAWS, and VoiceOver, and ships with a high contrast mode that respects forced-colors. The tool that fixes the barrier cannot be a barrier itself.
Compliance
Healthcare documents are HIPAA-sensitive. Student materials are FERPA-sensitive. The European users running Aletheia in a browser deserve the same data minimization a GDPR-native product would offer. Local-only processing makes most of these obligations trivial because the protected data simply never leaves the device.
Security
No cloud document store, no unencrypted local storage, no telemetry, no third-party analytics, OAuth-only authentication on paid tiers, and a free tier that does not require an account at all. The strongest protection against a breach is not having the data, and Aletheia is built around that fact.
Who built Aletheia
Mary Leriche, founder of Lonia AI.
Aletheia is built by Mary Leriche, founder of Lonia AI. I spent over a decade building accessible government and enterprise software. I remediated 130+ websites for WCAG and Section 508 compliance. I built Pallas so organizations could find their accessibility failures. I built BrailleBuddy so blind students could get their materials in braille in minutes instead of weeks. And I built Aletheia because the 96% of websites that are still inaccessible after 36 years of standards are not going to fix themselves, and the people locked out should not have to wait for them.
Questions? Reach us at admin@lonia.ai.
What Aletheia is not
Not a replacement for the work institutions still owe.
Aletheia is not a replacement for institutional accessibility. Organizations still have a legal and moral obligation to make their content accessible. Aletheia fills the gap while they catch up. If they catch up.
If you run a website, fix it. If you publish documents, tag them. If you build forms, label them. The right answer is to make the original content accessible, not to push the cost of fixing it onto the people who were already harmed by it. Aletheia exists for the long stretches of time between when access is owed and when it is delivered, and for the cases where it never will be.